The injection of jets normal to a crossflow is a key technology for the development of an advanced low NO gas turbine • based on a Rich-Burn/Quick-Quench/Lean-Burn (RQL) combustor. The RQL combustor depends on an efficient quick mix section that rapidly and uniformly dilutes the rich zone products to minimize emissions. Therefore, an experimental investigation of a non-reacting mixing process of jets in a crossflow was conducted. The jets were perpendicularly injected through one stage of opposed rows of circular orifices into a slightly heated crossflow within a rectangular duct. AU geometries were tested with staggered arrangements of the centerlines of the opposed jets. The temperature distribution was measured and from that the mixing rate was determined for parametric variations of flow and geometric conditions. In accordance with the application to RQL-combustion, emphasis was put on high momentum flux ratios with high massflow addition. The experimental study provides the data base for a correlation of best mixing depending on geometric conditions for staggered mixing configurations. The correlation presented specifies the optimum momentum flux ratio as a function of the duct height to hole diameter ratio and the relative spacing of the injected jets.
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